The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1936, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 25. 1936, LURID TALES —_— e (/\|EDY AND BACCALAUREATE | t & THEATRE TONIGHT nanpne= » 5 Veice of Experience The Band Concert DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE NEWS SCIENTISTS T0 SEEK FLORA OF ARCTIC CIRCLE Br o ther Horticulturists o Victoria, B. C., Enroute | to Porcupine River | c VICTORIA, B. tvard and Joe Lohbrunner, brother horticulturists of Victoria, will spend the summer gathering Arctic a They plan to lea re in June for Skagway and thence travel by rail to,.the banks of .the Yukon.! They will drift or paddle down' stream, collecting specimens at fav- crable spots enroute to the Arctic Circle at Porcupine River, from which point they will paddle back into Canadian territory within the Circle, where, in unglaciated areas where life has not been destroyed by ice, they expect to find rare plants. With the approach of winter, the brothers will return down the Por- cupine, thence up the Yukon to Circle City, and trek overland to Fairbanks, collecting flora enroute. From Fairbanks they will go by rail’ to Mt. McKinley and from there to Seward and, eventually, by boat to Victoria. — e i DOUGLAS D. I. W. C. PICNIC SET FOR NEXT THURSDAY Arrangements have been made by the Douglas Island Women's Club for their annual picnic, the date of which is set for Thursday, May 28, providing the weather is favor- able. The picnickers will take a May 25.—Ed- e e e - THRILLS AT BOTH MOVIES and ‘“‘Transatlantic Tun- nel” Offered Tonight Tuneful and packed with rich comedy “The Big Broadcast of 1936, which opened yesterday at the Capitol Theatre, combines a diverting comedy plot with an im- pressive collection of stars garnered from the top ranks of radio, stage and sereen. Jack Oakie, Burns and Allen and Lyda Roberti play the stellar roles in this story of two radio enter- tainers who fall inadvertently into the hands of a young countess who kidnaps them until she can decide which one she wishes to ma | In their frantic effort to escape, the entertainers made use of “Radio Eye,” a television invention marketed by Burns and Allen, to expedite their rescue, and, inci-| dentally, to bring to the screen such stars as Bing Crosby, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Ethel Merman, Bill Robinson. Charles Ruggles. Especially effective is a small hos- pital scene starring David Holt, boy screen star. “Transatlantic Tunnel,” starring | Richard Dix, Helen Vinson, Madge | Evans and C. Aubrey Smith, plays| tonight at the Coliseum Theatre. The story concerns the dark per- ils which meance the un(lr’rsea‘ workers in a tremendous project Romance, betrayal, self-sacrifice, atonement, the glories and agonies of love fulfilled and thwarted, are intermingled with strenuous phys- ical action. lhn" | | special bus to Douglas at 10 o'clock | in the morning for the Blomgren | cabin on Glacier Highway. Each member is privileged to take one | guest in addition to the member: | of her own family and a nomina charge per person will be madc for the trip. The members are tc : provide refreshments. A definitc menu has been made up and clubite has certain things to L or send in case t do not go D SCOUTS ON JOB | After a good week’s work Doug- | las Scouts have succeeded in re- moving the large pile of dirt exca- vated from Guy's Drug Store base- ment, completing the largest job of its kind which they have so far un- | dertaken. The money thus earned | by the boys will go far toward fp} nancing their camping trip this| summer. ., NORTHLAND UNLOADS BIG TONNAGE HERE With close to 200 tons of freight for Douglas, the Northland was docked here most of Saturday night unloading the cargo. Eighteen hun- dred sacks of cement were included in the shipment of which the ma-| jor portion was for Wright and Stock Co. B HOME FROM COLLEGE Miss Violet Johnson returned to Douglas on the Yukon early this morning from the University of Al- aska, where she has completed two years of stud; B George Peterson was a returning passenger on the Yukon from Cor- dova where he spent the past cou- ple of weeks. Part of his stay there he spent in the hospital under treat- ment for injury suffered in a fall while on his way there. e ee— Traffic on St. Anns Avenue is suspended today to permit excava- tion for three new water main and trunk sewer lines. Wright and Stock moved their big shovel to the Avenue this morning to start dig- ging trench for the pipes. e | “Big Broadcast of 1936 |Safety Standards Strength- [ lage of a |affo |mortgages ‘| merctal Under FHA Now Gaiflng Favur; enedAGreater Protec- | fesses to $20,000 Ex- tion Is Afforded 1 tortion Attempt It. has taken the nation’s home mortgage lending business only a little more than a year to undergo a radical change in character and to adopt principles of practice that ALBANY, Ore, May 25.—Lurid {for Willie Cole, 17, high school stu- |dent who was jailed on the charge make for long range security and|Mrs. H. Clockerline, widow. Mrs. safety both to lender and bor- Cockerline was threatened that her A survey of the business today,|ed if she didn't leave the money according to John E. Pegues, Ter-|in $1,000 bills, in a vacant Iot. esting fact that the amortized single |Cole confessed and is held under mortgdge based on a high percent- [a $500 bail. Police traced the letter value has gained almost universal|and confronted Cole with the letter adoption in this country. which said: “Arthur liable to be mortgage actually was not intro- catch on fire.” duced by the National Housing Act,| Lillard blamed detective stories vehicle on which it has been car- PR TR B A NPT RS ried to nation-wide acceptance by 50TH WEDB'NG operate with the additional pro- | tection ' of Federal Housing Ad-| Pegues said. ANNIVERSARY “Use of this type of mortgage certain sections and to certain | lending agencies such as the build- | few extended over the full period of 20 years allowable under the Mr. and MYS. H. R. S}’epard Married Fifty Years the 80 per cent of appraised value which is the maximum under the | loan associations as long as a score| Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Shepard are of years ago, held to the prmciple‘celebrating their golden wedding an- and ;Shepard denies there will be any “The National Housing Act can-|Party honoring the event, he and standardizing practices of mol't-‘inR to their friends who plan to sage lending which have proved | c8ll with the greater protection two of the Territory’s most promi- by Federal insurance of nent pioneers and have' been resi- rower. son Arthur, aged 20, would be kill- ritorial Director, reveals the inter-| State Policeman J. E. Lillard said scientifically appraised [to a typewriter in the high school, “While the long term amortized [accidentally shot or your house this law, at least, served as the|as the cause of Cole’s crime. institutional lenders whether they ministration insurance or not,” Mr. formerly was confined largely to! ing and loan associations. While | Housing Act and virtually none for | L Today Housing Act, some building and | hat this type of mortgage was niversary today, and although Mr. tributes, therefore, a means of |1is wife will be at home this even- sound and safe to lender and bor-| The anniversary celebrants are dents of Juneau, Douglas, Tread- rower | well and Fairbanks since 1897. Mr. Shepard married Mrs. Shep- ard, who was the former Rachael C. M. Mumford, May 25, in Lewis Centre, Ohio. The couple has three children, Mrs. B. B.Neiding, Royal { M. Shepard and J. G. Shepard. They | have two grandchildren, Mrs. Rach- ! ael Neiding Waddington and Miss Ruth Neiding; and two great grand children both residing in Seattle. Mr. Shepard who is 73 years old has been engaged in the insurance business since 1913 and is the oldest employee of the Canadtan National Line in Alaska, having been the Ju- neau agent since the C .N. R. boats first called here. He is a former member of the City Council, a mem- | ber of the Territorial Legislature in | 1923, former city clerk of Juneau and for several years has served as | tax assessor. Mr. Shepard is now the Republi- can nominee in the First Division for the Territorial Senate. TO0 LATE TO CLASSIFY |LOST—Pair brown leather gloves, fur trim. Return to Empire. Re- ward. “Among the 5 which develop standardized many advantage: and grow out of | practices is the elim- ination, to a considerable degree, of dangerous competition among lenders which might result in over- lending on real property and react against the quality of the mort- gages as an investment, according to Frederick M. Babcock, Chief of the Underwri ction of the Federal Housing Administration. “The long-term, Federal Housing insured mortgage appears also to be gaining favor as a commercial bank investment, a fact that a few months ago would have seemed in- consistent with commercial bank practices. A recent survey, however, showed that 39 per cent of Fed- eral Housing insured mortgages had been handled by national banks and 32 per cent by State banks. Thus 71 per eent of the Federal Housing Administration’s long term paper is in the portfolios of com- banking institutions.” NURSES WILL HOLD BUSINESS SESSION CELEBRATION Bombs Dropped . Raises Furor | Akraid, Then Mad — It | Was Only An Accident | SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 25.— first afraid and then mad When | two bombs accidentally fell out of | her house and exploding. Nine per- sons living in two adjacent ranches were in danger of their lives. “I thought someone was shooting at my back door. I found several setting eggs spoiled and got mad. | know how the Ethiopians feel,” Mrs. i Miller “said. Lieut! Timper of the 31st bom- i bardment squadron of Mather Field blamed defective equipment for the accident. A grass fire started as the result of the exploding bombs. | |FUR FARMERS HEAR LECTURER; MOVING ‘PICTURES SHOWN Practically every fur farmer in the immediate vicinity gathered at the Legion Dugout Saturday even- ing and Sunday evening to attend conferences held by Albert H. Leon- jard, of the fox department of the Purina Mills, on the general fox farming industry. Motion pictures were shown. Mr. Leonard, who in the informal discussions, stated that from his observations, fox farming is most logical for the Territory, as its sorts' of fur-beating animals, par- ticularly silver and blue foxes. In discussing the proper food of these special cereal put out by his firm, combined with crushed fish is the supérior food for blue fox, while silver fox grow better on a diet known as checkers, put out by the Purina company. Lower production costs, better selection and foods, and better management is the only sure road to suceess in this busi- ness, he concluded. Today Mr. Leonard is spending his thme with "is movie camera, among the various farms in this vicinity. He will leave tomorrow for Cordova, to continue his tour of Alaska fur farming centers. R i MRS: VANDER LEEST LEAVES FOR SEATTLE H. R. Vander Leest, of the Butler- Maure Drug Co., left on the Motor- ship Northland for a three or four weeks business trip to Seattle. While there he will attend the graduation exercises at the University of Wash- ington, where his daughter Mary s graduating this year. On his return to Juneau, Mr. Vander Leest will be accompanied by Mary and his other daughter Jean who has completed her first year &t Marylhurst College in Port- land. climatic conditions are right for all | types, Mr. Leonard stated that a COLONISTS T0 BLAMED FOR | by Army Plane = EXPERIMENT IN BOY'S CRIME Willie Cole,zg—cd 17, Con- Rancher';TWife Is First H. J. Lechn;r,Superintend- Rev. Jchn /\..rrGlasse Gives RAISING BEES ent of Federal Farm Expects Good Yield 3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 25.— detective stories lost the appeal Mrs. Edgar Miller, rancher, was H, J. Lechner, Superintendent of the Federal Experiment Farm at Matanuska, said experiments are to |of attempting to extort $20,000 from an army airplane and landed near pe condtcted this summer to de- termine the feasibility of bee cul- ture by the colonists. Five hives will arrive early in June. Colonist Lloyd Bell raised bees during the past year and reported 30 pounds of honey per hive with swarms of one fifth strength. Using these figures as a basis, Lechner hopes a normal yield will be 75 to 100 pounds per hive a season. Bell said he had no trouble wintering the bees. e MISS VAN DAM BECOMES BRIDE OF MR GRAHAM Couple Take Vows at Charming Ceremony Saturday Evening At an impressive ceremony Satur- day evening held in the home of | Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Newell at Auk Bay, Miss Gertrude Van Dam be- | came the bride of Mr. Robert Gra- ham. The Rev. Erling K. Olafson read the marriage vows. The bride was charmingly dressed in a blue gown and carried a cor- sage of pink roses. She was at- | tended by Mrs. Newell, dressed in brown velvet and carrying yellow roses. Mr. Tom Thomson attended Mr. Graham ds best man. About twenty close friends of the attended the reception which fol- lowed. Dainty refreshments were served the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Graham spent the week end at the Newell cabin. Mrs. Graham came to Juneau recently from Washington, D. C., where she was employed in Dutch Consular service. Mr. Gra- ( Juneau mine The couple plan to make their home at 924 A Street. - U. OF A. PROFESSOR ON'WAY OUTSIDE FOR A. S. Wilkerson, professor of geol- ogy at the University of Alaska, and Mrs. Wilkerson are passengers south bound on the Yukon. Professor Wil- kerson has been granted a year's leave of absence from the Univer- sity and will go to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to com- plete post-graduate work. | Gastineau Channel Nurses will meet for a short business session| at the home of Mrs. Verne| Soley, president, tonight at 8 o'-| clock. Members are earnestly urged | to attend the meeting which has| been called to clear up old busx-} ness. ) - RETURNS HOME | Mrs. R. W. Dusenbury, wife of | the Commander at Chilkoot Bar-| racks, who has been visiting in Juneau for a week, and a house guest at the Governor’s House, re- rturned to her home on the North-| Miss Esther Shafer is confined to her home with a severe attack of flu. western. ———— SHOP IN JUNE~D, ¥TR.:TY bl"‘ Death became the early morning host at a San Francisco night club when flares waved by a “torch dancer” set fire %o flimsy draperis sons were in the club, and made a of the resort after the fire had been extinguished. Right, Betty Blossom, the dancer whose torches caused FOUR KILLED IN NIGHT CLUBFIRE. and caused four deaths in the pan zied rush for the lone exit. Left, the blaze, (Associated Press Photos) ic which followed. Some 50 per- firemen in the scorched interior lF YOU are not con- versant with the facili- ties a modern funeral home should have, then let us inv spect our ite you to im- establishment, at your convenience. See for yourself the fa- cilities we! make avail- able withouat charge . . . and prepare yourself to be of invaluable assist- ance at a‘time when others may be incapable of decision. Telephone 136-2 The Charles W. Carter Mortuary couple witnessed the ceremony and | the | ham is an employee of the Alaska; YEAR AT ANN ARBOR — e SERVIGES HELD SUNDAY NIGHT Pointed Address to Graduating Class Describing their lives as airplanes which could be flown high or low as the individual wished, the Rev. John A. Glasse gave a pointed ad- dress to the graduating class of the | Juneau High School evening at the Baccalaureate exercises held in the sehool gymnasium. The Rev. Glasse =2monished the forty young people who are grad- uating at Commencement Exercises to be held next Wednesday, not to fear the high places. He explained | that each of the students has a plane of his own—his life which| was given to him to be used to the best advantage and which had the | potentiality to soar high. “You have reached the place where you must do your own flying and commencement time is the time to make your solo flight” Mr, Glasse said in conclusion of his talk add-| ing that he wished the Class of | 1936 a successful flight and a happy landin= | The impressive exercises last ev-| ening which were attended by a large crowd of parents and friends of the graduates began with a “Cor- | onation March,” played by the High School Orchestra, under the direc- tion of Byron Miller, following| which the Rev. Erling K. Olafson | gave the Invocation. | After a selection “Lift Thine| Eyes,” rendered by the girl's chorus under the direction of Miss Ruth Coffin, the Scriptural Lesson was| read by C. C. Personeus. A hymn| in which the congregation joined in singing with the graduating class preceded the Baccalaureate Sermon by the Rev. Glasse, Following the sermon Katherine Torkelson sang a number entitled “I Love a Little Garden” The Benediction was given by A. G. Tanner, and in conclusion of | the ceremony the Senior Class marched out of the gymnasium while the High School Orchestra ‘Iplaycd the “Priest's March.” last Enjoy all these advantages on low trips to most eastern cities. From Seattle or Vancouver, y | the lowest roundtrip directly East $86 in standard Pullmans (plus Southern Pacific’s principal trai dirt are eliminated. Low-cost coach and tourist passengers; cof TWO GREAT EXPOSITIONS International at San Diego and tinue on your eastern journey. MANY OTHER ADVANTAGES General Agent, 1405 Fourth Ave., Seattl; P. and ORM THEATRE TONIGHT Selected Shorts HALEY REPORTS SALMON RUN LIGHT IN SITKA DISTRICT Fish Warden Donald S. Haley Is preparing to leave here Wednesday for his new station at Craig on the West Coast. ed at the week-end fro: )l in the Sitka distr itt.wake and will take the sair > Peters~ burg Wednesday, t. .lerring there to the Auklet, Capt. L. J. Collins, for the West Coast. Mrs. Haley will accompany him. Only 1¥ seal were taken by the natives in the Sitka section, Haley reported, and the salmon trolling thus far has been light. Up to May 18 only 52000 pounds of fresh kings had been taken, about half the amount for the same period last year. Halibut fishing is fair, he said, with 150,000 pounds taken up to May 18. Late season is be- lieved responsible for the lightness of the catch thus far, and most of the fishermen still are looking Tie ALASKANS! i A FREE TICKET THRU CALIFORNIA! 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